Statutory Instruments
2019 No. 1506
Constitutional Law
Devolution, Wales
The Government of Wales Act 2006 (Amendment) Order 2019
Made
17th December 2019
Coming into force in accordance with article 1
At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 17th day of December 2019
Present,
The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council
A draft of this Order has been laid before, and approved by a resolution of, each House of Parliament and the National Assembly for Wales in accordance with section 109(4) of the Government of Wales Act 2006( 1 ).
Her Majesty, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 109 and 157(2) of that Act( 2 ), is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order as follows:
Title and commencement
1. —(1) This Order may be cited as the Government of Wales Act 2006 (Amendment) Order 2019.
(2) It comes into force on the day after the day on which it is made.
Amendments to Part 1 of Schedule 7B to the Government of Wales Act 2006
2. —(1)Part 1 of Schedule 7B to the Government of Wales Act 2006 (general restrictions) is amended as follows.
(2) In paragraph 9(6), after paragraph (c), insert—
“ (d) an electoral registration officer (within the meaning of section 8 of the Representation of the People Act 1983 ( 3 ) ). ”
(3) In paragraph 10(2), after paragraph (l), insert—
“ (m) an electoral registration officer (within the meaning of section 8 of the Representation of the People Act 1983). ”
Welsh Ministers (Transfer of Functions) Order 2018
3. —(1) On the date on which this Order comes into force, ERO functions are to be treated as transferred to the Welsh Ministers by article 45 of, and Schedule 1 to, the 2018 Order (transfer of functions in relation to electoral legislation).
(2) Paragraph (3) of article 45 of the 2018 Order applies in relation to ERO functions as if the reference to the coming into force of that article were a reference to the coming into force of this Order.
(3) In this article—
“the 2018 Order” means the Welsh Ministers (Transfer of Functions) Order 2018( 4 );
“ERO functions” means functions—
which were not transferred to the Welsh Ministers by article 45 of, and Schedule 1 to, the 2018 Order, but
which would have been so transferred if the amendments made by article 2 of this Order had been in force on the date on which article 45 of the 2018 Order came into force.
Richard Tilbrook
Clerk of the Privy Council
2006 c. 32 . Section 109(4) was amended by section 69(1) of, and paragraphs 1, 3(1) and (3) of Part 1 of Schedule 6 to, the Wales Act 2017 (c. 4) .
Sections 109(1) and (5) were amended by section 69(1) of, and paragraphs 1, 3(1) and (respectively) (2) and (4) of Part 1 of Schedule 6 to, the Wales Act 2017.
1983 c. 2 . Section 8 was amended by: section 66(6) and (8) of, and paragraph 68(1) of Schedule 16 to, and Schedule 18 to, the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994 (c. 19) ; section 11(4) of the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act 2011 (c. 1) ; and section 180(1) of, and paragraph 130(2) of Schedule 13 to, the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 (c. 39) .